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Chapter 3 Welcome Aboard! (Erh, maybe not literally…)
"…Excuse me, is Konoha located on Earth?" Akiya hastily asked like it was a really stupid question. The wise old Hokage chuckled at her awkward expression. Slowly taking a sip from his clay pipe, before answering a definite 'yes.'
"Feu." Akiya sighed, 'Just making sure this is not located on Pluto or something…'
This girl who was currently feeling like an outsider arrived with the stoic Uchiha Sasuke at the Hokage's office two minutes ago. The Hokage was nevertheless impressed and at the same time, awed by the event happened to her, being transported from another dimension. That is, only when he believed her first.
Akiya had every right to believe that the Uchiha boy who had been sitting beside her across from the Hokage's desk stuck to his sceptical thoughts. She could tell that Sasuke still suspected her as a 'spy' from some random village. The slight squint of his eyes as she talked; the frown, the intense scrutiny. His vigilant self was never let down during the entire conversation. Sometimes Akiya really felt like standing up and shout at him 'FOR THE HOKAGE'S SAKE, I'M NOT A DAMN SPY AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE OR I'LL SPANK YOUR SORRY ASS, STOP BEING SO TENSE, THE HELL, YOU'RE ONLY TWELVE!" but she didn't and wouldn't.
"Well, welcome to Konoha, the hidden village of the Leaf, Akiya Kaede. From today you will be joining this big family, the village welcome you and we wish you make yourself comfortable and at home." The Hokage smiled kindly. "It is going be a new life. New adventure waiting for you."
'…He doesn't look that welcoming.' Peeking at Sasuke, was it her, or the boy had this 'Damn it my prediction is wrong.' look?
"Hai! Thank you very much." Akiya bowed her head.
"Still, I will be investigating the reason you arrived, and of course, how to get you back as soon as possible. I am sure your family is extremely worried about you and wondering where you are." Akiya tensed up. Family…as if, no one will care even of she was gone forever, she didn't have one anyway.
"That doesn't matter, Hokage-sama. Please take your time to investigate. I live alone over there so I don't think anyone will have noticed nor be worried." Giving the old man her usual fake grin, she said clearly with each word, pretending it doesn't hurt.
Sasuke's dark eyes glanced at her from the corner. 'Another person… is it?'
The hokage gave her an intense gaze, taking a slow sip from his pipe, his eyes filled with worry. He needed to give this child a new, happy and warm family. "Akiya, let's decide where you'll be living. I would like to acknowledge your preference, would you rather live alone like you are used to, or live with another family? It's up to you."
"…I," for sure she thought she would say 'alone', somehow, the decision was stuck at her throat. Which one? It's so long since she had been truly able to love and trust someone. Will she be able to do it still? Without hurting another person she loves like she did before? "I…um…"
Sasuke had been silent all along. He wasn't the type to butt into other people's conversations, but this time, he felt obliged to, not just for her, it was for the situation. "You should live with a family."
"Heh?" Akiya's head swayed up, her translucent, gold eyes gazed at Sasuke, did the block of ice just talked?
"You have just arrived, therefore you wouldn't be familiar with this place yet, also the style of living. So it is better to have a family to guide you." Sasuke said with a straight voice. (and face) "You didn't sound so happy when you talked about being alone before, why not make a pleasant start." It was a statement not a question. He has had enough of that loneliness, just not another person. He felt obliged to save them.
Akiya was touched, "Aw… Ochibi, thank you." She turned to the Hokage. "Hokage-sama, I decided to live with another family then." The Hokage smiled knowingly.
"Let's get you registered first."
"For…?"
"Shinobi trainee." The hokage said, taking out a sheet of paper with blanks to fill, and a thin mane brush.
Akiya gaped, "Heh…?"
"Shinobi-to-be. Ninja-to-be." The hokage said again. Then, Akiya's head and eyes were doing the swirlies.
NINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJANINJA……!!!!!!!
"……." she paused, a long pause.
"Are you that excited now you are speechless?" the ojiisan laughed, oblivious to what is going on in her head.
"What are you talking about??!! I DON'T WANT TO DIE SO YOUNG!" Sasuke looked at her like she was a madwoman, 'Coward…'
"Die?" the Sandaime repeated her word, a confused look on his face.
"You see." Akiya paused and took a long breath, "According to what I have being learning about ninjas back at school in Tokyo, they, them, the ninjas, they assassinate, get involved in bloody combats, a lot of them died in those battles. Besides that, they need to train hard, practicing until their arms and legs fall off, until they reach their ultimate limit, getting beaten if not. Treachery, fraud, backstabbing, blackmailing, kidnapping, abducting, murder, assassination, strangling, seducing….."
"Stop at the seducing part." Sandaime looked at her, finally realizing what she meant. "Well, what you have learnt about ninjas, 99 percent of it is wrong. Who told you we backstab and blackmail each other? Who told you that you're going to assassinate people? We don't train our ninjas until their limps fall off."
"Heh?" Sasuke scoffed at her lame, puzzled face, she was so amusing. Akiya inwardly cursed at Sasuke when their glances met.
"What am I going to do then?" she asked untrustingly. Therefore, the Hokage explained to her the ranks and how she needed to go and graduate from the Academy before actually become a ninja, maybe she'll never become one. All that boring stuff you couldn't care more to know.
"……hmmmmm." she hesitated.
"Scaredy cat." Sasuke started, Akiya's attention turned to him.
"Did you just talk again?" Sasuke gave her a 'whatever' look. "Hell, what did you just call me?"
"You realized this is the world of shinobi, not the weak world of yours. Make yourself useful, not useless, scaredy cat." She felt anger boiled inside. He was right, and she felt ashamed. She doesn't know when she can return to her world and now, she couldn't even take another step to fit into her new world. Already, she is scared before she even started.
Since when!? Just since when did the proud and popular Akiya Kaede became like that? She needed to prove it to that arrogant block-o-ice that she can do it! She is taking that step.
"I will register, Hokage-sama." she informed loudly. The Hokage smiled, he knew he didn't bet on the wrong person. He handed the information sheet to her. She wrote down her details with each steady stroke.
Just one little kink she didn't answer truthfully, Akiya made her age fourteen when she was actually twelve. Her appearance could easily pass it anyway. So now the ochibi and everybody needed to respect her.
"Here you go." The Hokage checked everything. "Akiya, I know you are a bit older than everyone else, but you will be going to the Ninja Academy, starting tomorrow, in the class with Naruto and Sasuke. I know this is going to be hard, but I'm sure you will catch up to them. Have faith shall we? Also, I have decided your place for staying. You will be staying with…" Her eyes shone expectantly. "Haruno Sakura's family."
Haruno Sakura… it is a nice name, the name accompanied hers very well, Akiya Kaede... She was quite happy and excited to meet her new friend.
"Well then Akiya Kaede…
There is no turning back now.
…Welcome to the world of shinobis."
Following the quiet boy's footsteps, Akiya was going back to the academy. She needed to say something to him, about before.
"Hey. Wait!" she tapped him on the shoulder. He tensed at the touch and stopped immediately. Dark aura was radiating off his brooding head.
"What do you want?" he muttered, not angry but annoyed.
"Neh, neh," she grinned, then to Sasuke's surprise, Akiya looked a bit embarrassed, or to say, shy? "Well, you know about before, how you didn't want me to live alone because you thought I need someone to take care of me and guide me, since I'm new… it was really considerate of you."
Sasuke looked at her, with an expressionless face, "It's nothing."
"No, that's not the point..!" she said hurriedly before he started to walk away.
"What is it then?" he raised an eyebrow.
She put an hand in her hair, which is what she always did when she gets nervous. "Thank you for knowing how sad loneliness really is. Because of what you said, I just felt… a little…"
Looking at her with a softer look he rarely showed anyone ever since that time… he realized he didn't find her that annoying, not like all the other fangirls. It was because he could relate to her, he felt pity for her because he is in the same situation.
"…even just a little… less lonely." She grinned, "Thanks." her hair was growing messier, blown by the wind. Sasuke's eyes widened for a milli-second. Before her could see his faint blush, he turned his head with a fake annoyed frown and walked away at fast pace. "Oi! Wait up, Ochibi." She caught up to him.
"Don't call me that." He grumbled.
"But you are short." A vein popped on Sasuke's forehead, Sasuke walked away even faster with an annoyed look. "Oi, what's wrong? Ochibi-chan!" she was half jogging now. She tapped his shoulder again.
Akiya gasped as Sasuke turned around and abruptly grabbed her wrist. "Heh…?"
Sasuke let out his famous, arrogant Uchiha smirk, before saying with a careless voice, "Tell you why I said that earlier, the only reason was because if I let you live alone, who knows what illegal and Konoha-jeopardizing things you'll be up to? Therefore why not let someone monitor you…?" he smirked again at Akiya's hanging jaw.
Her brows creased and uncreased. "You are so mean," she whined like a kid. "And lame." She added with a laugh.They both knew it was a joke, but it just felt good to be kept this way. Now this time it was her turn to walk at the front, however she started running. She pulling an eye at him, "Heh, I'm going to go back now, race you." before hopping onto her bike and zoomed away.
Sasuke smirked, she was definitely amusing. He walked after her.
One step, two step, three…
"…wait…, stop…this isn't…" and suddenly, Uchiha Sasuke realized something. "Wait…wait…YOU!!! STOP!!!" Sasuke couldn't help but growled with frustration at her disappearing silhouette in the far distance, Too bad, she was overly excited to race him, and then she disappeared.
Speechless at the girl's disappearance in an unbelievable short amount of time, and her extremely bad sense of direction.
You went the wrong way…
TBC…
A/N
There, my lame attempt at humour, I hope you liked it.
And also peoples, you know I can see the stats of my story, I know how may people had read my story. You know? About less than 5 percent of you who read my story actually reviewed. Tell you the truth, if you don't review, the first thought I get is that you don't like the story. (Well, that might be the case.) Then it leads to the lack of motivation to rewrite and update cos why would I bother if no one likes it (Thank you to those people who liked it and reviewed, Arigatou gozaimashita!).
Simple, if you like it, please review. If you don't like it, some constructive flames please? Please? Thanks, now I shall say no more on this topic.
About the story. You like this chapter? I really like writing the last part. By the way, Sasuke isn't in love with Akiya k? Don't get the wrong idea just yet. You can still vote for the pairing, I want to see whether it is turning up as interesting as last time. Hehe.
Anything ooc? Please tell me, I am DETERMINED to keep them not ooc.
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